ake of the president of syria mocking us? >> you have to look at president assad mocking us. the irony of that. because as you know the obama administration has given him a pass here their theory is we will train this up moderate opposition and allow assad to slaughter them because we will not stop him from taking any strikes against him. you have to look at these comments in light of, really i think the strategy that john how it works there a and also the fact that he is getting a pass that said on the substance on the air strikes i think they have been somewhat tepid. >> two questions. let me go to the second one first. does this mean that the situation on the ground is getting worse or are we ton containing it? status quo or are things getting worse there? >> there have been some progress, except i think on the syria side there is not i believe -- the issue of this. who is going to fight them on the ground. and if you just give assad' the pass of these people that we're going to train off to kill them. who is going fight them. >> awkward, awful part you want to use about it is that if we are successful in syria, against isis, that mean